It
is not easy for any club in the world to play without their star man when he is
in top form. Same is the case with Liverpool Football Club who has lost their
talisman Luis Suarez to Spanish giants FC Barcelona. It was a well-known fact
for a month now that Suarez has lost his interest in playing in England and
will head towards Spain. So a £75m deal was agreed between both clubs without
any chaos.

But the question now is can Liverpool cope without the player who had scored 31 goals last season and had a major say in their title push. If we look at a
nearest example of any such thing happening, there are some models Liverpool
should be afraid of. The most recent dreadful practise was experienced by
Tottenham who after losing their key player, Bale, didn’t capitalize enough on
his transfer money and had a rather disappointing season.

After
performing over the par for two seasons, the Welshman decided to leave Spurs.
But it was felt that Spurs played well over this request and got a hefty fee of
100 million pounds for Bale. It was once in a lifetime opportunity for the
London club to build a squad of good players. After that, Spurs injected Bale’s
fee in their squad and got many quality players. But it proved to be a failed
experiment for Tottenham. It wasn’t due to the fact that Tottenham overpriced
players but one can simply say Luck wasn’t on their side.

They
bought players with huge promise but most of these Talents failed to deliver.
For example Soldado who was a key player for Valencia and a goal poacher for
the Spanish club simply couldn’t transform his abilities in his new side. Erik
Lamela, another exciting talent was haunted by injuries so much that he failed
to play in most of the season. So Tottenham fell to 6th position in English Premier League table.

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S.A.SBut the situation is not as gloom as it
seems for Liverpool. It wasn’t the Uruguayan who won most points for the club
but it is Daniel Sturridge who did. Sturridge who himself scored 20 goals last
season, also had a brilliant campaign. When Luis Suarez was banned for 8
matches for biting incident, Sturridge stepped up and performed really well.
Apart from Sturridge, youngsters like Coutinho, Henderson and Sterling also had
a brilliant run last season. Sterling, one of the best youngsters in England
who had excelled really well under Brendan Rodgers. So a new S.A.S is already
in place in form of Sturridge and Sterling for Liverpool.

Confident Approach.

After
losing a meaningless friendly against Brondby, Rodgers was in a confident mood.
He was quoted as,

“Luis going doesn’t lessen our
ambitions—we want to continually improve. He’s a wonderful player but we will
move on,”

That is surely a right way to move forward. So far
Brendan Rodgers has made four signings involving Can, Markovic, Lambert and
Lallana. It is clear from these signings that Rodgers is going to build a squad
rather than a team. Liverpool’s main problem last season was their defending.
Rodgers tried different defending partnerships but all in vain. On one side,
forwards were tearing other teams apart and defenders were equally unaware of
their duties. So now Brendan Rodgers has the right money to buy quality defenders
and defending midfielders so that his team can win matches not only by scoring
goals but also by keeping their lead.

And
by getting so many midfielders, it seems Rodgers is returning to its Swansea
tactics in which his team enjoyed in controlling the game more often than not.
In the meantime, Liverpool do need a big squad to compete well in Champions
league and they can get that now with Suarez’ transfer money. So far LFC are
linked with Reus and Vidal. And if the Merseyside Reds manages to get any of
these players, they will surely be one to watch next season.

Conclusion:

So next season will be a tough season for Liverpool. If they can spend their money in a right way, there is no doubt that they cannot repeat their heroics from last season.